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Kawabanga Drops ‘11:11’ Album — Remy, THRXLL & Fly A Spaceship-Produced 11-Track Kumasi Drill Statement Out Now

Official 11:11 album cover: black-and-white side profile of Kawabanga with long locs and a white vest, in a thin The Ent News green frame

Some rappers pick release dates the way you pick a trotro seat: anywhere is fine, as long as you reach. Kawabanga does not move like that. The Kumasi drill heavyweight looked at the calendar, saw 11/11, and decided the universe had already done his marketing. On Wednesday, 11 November 2026, he released “11:11”, an 11-track album on 1800 REC and TRAPAKAN Recordings. Eleven songs, eleventh day, eleventh month. If you are not a numbers person, today you have become one.

And the cover? No shouting font, no fireworks, no Photoshop lion. Just a black-and-white side profile of the man himself, long locs falling over a white vest, tattoo on the shoulder, eyes looking somewhere you are not invited. It is the kind of artwork that says “I have nothing to prove”, which is exactly what a rapper says right before he proves something.

⚡ “11:11” at a Glance

“11:11” runs just over 26 minutes, which is drill-album maths: short songs, hard entries, no long speeches. The tracks mostly land between two and three minutes, so before your Bolt driver finishes asking whether you have change, you have already gone through three beats and one existential crisis. The album credits list Kawabanga alone on every song, so this is a solo statement from start to finish.

Production is shared by a tight three-man team. Remy handles the opener and “Mefiri Santa”, and also built earlier singles “Geeking” and “Foreign”. THRXLL brings the menace on “Sama Me”, “Locced In” and the closer “Sound Of A Blick”. Fly A Spaceship takes “Bayie”, “Salaga” and “Holiday”. Three producers, eleven songs, one very focused rapper.

📌 Quick Facts

Project11:11
ArtistKawabanga
ReleasedWednesday, 11 November 2026
FormatAlbum (11 tracks)
Label1800 REC / TRAPAKAN Recordings
LengthAbout 26 minutes
GenreGhana drill × hip-hop
ProducersRemy, THRXLL, Fly A Spaceship

The Tracklist

  1. Osagyefo Dr. Kawabanga
  2. Mefiri Santa
  3. Geeking
  4. Bayie
  5. Salaga
  6. Foreign
  7. Sama Me
  8. Locced In
  9. Adom, Pt. 2
  10. Holiday
  11. Sound Of A Blick

Osagyefo? Massa, You Are Starting Big

The album opens with “Osagyefo Dr. Kawabanga”, and if your history teacher is reading this, they just sat up straight. Osagyefo, often translated as “redeemer”, was the title carried by Ghana’s first president, Dr Kwame Nkrumah. To put it in front of your own name on track one is pure rap confidence. It is like arriving at your end-of-year party in kente and a presidential motorcade made of okada. Over a Remy beat, Kawabanga sets the tone at 2:20, quick and unbothered.

Then comes “Mefiri Santa”. Mefiri is Twi for “I come from”, and for a rapper who grew up in Santasi, Kumasi, the title reads like a hometown salute. At just over three minutes, it is one of the longest songs on the album, which in drill terms means he had extra things to settle.

The Singles Were the Breadcrumbs

Kawabanga did not drop this album out of nowhere. He spent the year leaving clues. “Geeking” arrived in May and got an official video in July alongside Yung NB and 21 Kelly. “Foreign” followed at the end of July. Then “Sama Me”, produced by THRXLL, landed on 4 November, exactly one week before the album, like the security man knocking to say “the main guest is on the way”. All three now sit inside the tracklist, with “Sama Me” at number seven.

Fresh records fill the space around them: “Bayie”, “Salaga”, “Locced In”, “Holiday” and the closer “Sound Of A Blick”. There is also “Adom, Pt. 2”, a recording from his 2023 era that returns here as the only clean-rated song on an otherwise explicit album. Even drill needs one moment where your auntie can enter the room.

Who Is Kawabanga?

Born Patrick Sarfo, Kawabanga is one of the Asakaa Boys, the Kumasi crew that turned the Ashanti capital into “Kumerica” and carried Ghanaian drill onto international playlists. If you remember 2020, you remember “Akatafoc” with O’Kenneth, Reggie and Jay Bahd, one of the songs that took the sound beyond the city and has millions of YouTube views to show for it. He kept the story going with the “Akatafoc Nsem” series, posse cuts like “Trophies” and “Calling”, and Kumasi link-ups like “Kwabena Sarfo” and “Keshe” with Dikoo.

On the album side, “11:11” follows God Bless Kawabanga (2022), BEEN ONE (2023) and BEAUTEVIL (2024). That is a steady run for an artist who never needed to shout to be heard. Even his X display name now simply reads “11:11”. When a man changes his name for an album, it is not a rollout anymore. It is a lifestyle.

The Rollout: Midnight Energy

A day before release, Kawabanga dropped a 51-second trailer titled “The Clock Strikes Midnight”, directed by Amartey, with Asiedu Richard as executive producer. Short, moody and straight to the point. Then, just after release, lyric audios for “Osagyefo Dr. Kawabanga” and “Mefiri Santa” went up on his YouTube channel, and the full album appeared on Apple Music and YouTube Music. The campaign had the same energy as the music: no wasted movement.

Why It Hits

First, discipline. Eleven songs in about 26 minutes means no filler, no 40-second skits, and no interlude where somebody’s uncle gives life advice. Second, identity. From the Nkrumah-sized opener to the Santasi salute, “11:11” is a Kumasi album that knows exactly where it comes from. Third, timing. With Yaw Tog, Reggie and Oseikrom Sikanii all keeping Kumasi loud this season, a veteran of the original Asakaa wave dropping a full body of work reminds everyone where the foundation was poured.

So make a wish at 11:11 if you like. But if your wish is for Kumasi drill to slow down, sorry. The clock has already struck.

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“Osagyefo Dr. Kawabanga” lyric audio, official upload on Kawabanga’s YouTube channel.

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Official 11:11 album cover: black-and-white side profile of Kawabanga with long locs and a white vest, in a thin The Ent News green frame
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